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New Asklepion
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Reach House
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Heide
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Adjacency Home
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Behind The Scenes
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Suburban Stack
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Value of Air
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Cultural Compendium
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Compositions
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Pleat_Pod
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ChaiseLounge.GH
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In Your Hands
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Product Design
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New Asklepion Semester One, 2019–20 Critics: Elia Zenghelis & Violette de la Selle The EU cross border initiative promotes international medical tourism, allowing for flexibility when choosing treatment types. The alluring Greek Saronic landscape would draw health seekers from all over Europe to the New Asklepion. Historically, the peninsula of Methana distinguished itself as a hot spring haven with therapeutic sulfuric water supplied by the active volcanic formations and attracted both local and international tourists. The New Asklepion draws upon the mysterious rituals of nearby Epidaurus, thereby inciting the traveler to further explore the region and its ancient healthcare customs. New Asklepion evolves and preserves an ancient archetype: introducing a new complex, reviving the old Methana spa site, reformulating ancient Asklepion rites, and contending the ailing state of the visitors. The premise of the anachronistic program challenges the conventions of the existing Greek tourism landscape through its typology and medical programs. The linearity of the New Asklepion forms an unofficial capstone for Methana, insulating the economic and cultural identity of the small seasonal town.
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Manifesto Image 5
Methana Site Plan 6
Shared Poolscape 7
Spa and Sauna Plans
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Hotel Plans
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Wellness Center Fl Plan - 1’=1/32”
Wellness Center Fl Plan - 1’=1/32”
1. Bar & Restaurant 2. Lounge 3. Massage Rms 4. Change Rms 5. Sleep Hall 6. Library 7. Philosopher’s Walk 8. Office 9. Procruster Chamber (clinic) 10. Periphetes Fitness Club (gym) 11. SublimeWalk
1. Bar & Restaurant 2. Lounge 3. Massage Rms 4. Change Rms 5. Sleep Hall 6. Library 7. Philosopher’s Walk 8. Office 9. Procruster Chamber (clinic) 10. Periphetes Fitness Club (gym) 11. SublimeWalk
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1. News of a spa town arrives, the pilgrims are intrigued
2. A strange curation of hotel art, enough to drive one insane
3.The relentless monastic cells do not negotiate
4. An off-limit garden aids the cleaning
5. By idiomatic law, rebuilding behind a building’s back is deceitful
6. A silent, transverse corridor - both conceding and leading
7.The thick heavy walls sweat, as do the participants
8. A familiar, one hundred and eighty one meter stadion
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9. An air of stillness lingers in the rock garden
10.The condemned are greeted with a drink of their choice
11. Before stumbling into three roads diverged... in a healing machine
12. Forced into a horizontal state of mentally erasive hyponosis
13. Immersed in a ground of earthly aromas
14. Inwardly interrogated by nightmarish and absurd fictions
15. Rewarded with a meditative philosopher’s walk
16. First stop on the other road...’Procrustes Chamber’
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17. Or endure ‘Periphetes Fitness... Club’
18.Test of the sublime walk. Is the sky upside down?
19.Thalassotherapy aisles, secluded from the other sea
20. Beyond the amphitheater, a phantasmic tripartite reappears
21. Engulfed in a territory of ammending pools
22. After across every pool, the swimmer must cross the road
23.To the cypress lined beach - most avoid the deathly shadows
24. Retreating to town to recapitulate, relieve and reiterate
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Reach House Semester Two, 2017–18 Critic: Andrew Benner The Reach House accommodates two low income clients, an individual and a small young family of three. Situated in a 12 foot wide alleyway, the house is sandwiched between two buildings with a thoroughfare maintained below. Initially the entry circulation is shared until the open air lobby where the two habitants diverge into their respective homes. The individual occupies the bottom half whilst the family owns the top of portion of the building. A singular light-well punctures the core of the structure, bringing down natural light for both dwellings. Individualized tectonic boxes are arrayed along the circulation allowing for storage, seating and other programmatic functions. These boxes are constructed using an array of structural insulated panels which has the capacity for services and storage units.
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SIP Box Diagram 19
Light-well Axonometric Model 20
Speculative Unit Axonometric 21
Short Section 1
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Short Section 2
Plan - 1st Floor
Plan - 2nd Floor
Plan - 3rd Floor
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Long Section 24
1’=1/8” Section Model 25
Heide Semester One, 2018–19 Critic: Martin Finio Heide introduces conceptual and formal maneuvers of play into a restorative justice community center. The site is situated on the main road of Bridgeport, Connecticut. The street is visibly lacking in programmed public space, entertainment and eateries. In this instance, by playing with the ground plane, landscape and building now share a common element which is to be used completely differently in terms of program. The roof structure belongs to the public and can potentially fulfill a role of a park but also as a thoroughfare between the main street and train station. Several interpretations of restorative spaces are integrated into the building. The internal plaza serves as a primer space to the auditorium while also functioning as an informal gathering space or as a large circle room. For more serious occasions, underground support rooms are dispersed around the plaza. The outdoor circle room challenges the city of Bridgeport to utilize the space in anyway they see fit, in an effort to reduce the institutional qualities of restorative justice.
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Bridgeport Site Model 27
Exploded Axonometric 28
Plan - Ground Floor 29
Public Roofscape 30
Short Section 1
Short Section 2
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Resting Garden
Vaulting Auditorium
Public Circle Room
The Buffer
1’=1/4” Daylighting Study Model 33
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Long Section
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Adjacency Home Semester Two, 2017–18 Critics: Peter de Bretteville & Andrew Benner Team: Maya Sorabjee, Jackson Lindsay, Jewel Pei, David Schaengold, Katharine Blackman, Arghavan Taheri Every year, the Yale School of Architecture partners with an NGO to build housing for those experiencing homelessness in New Haven. This year, our site was located in the ‘Hill’ district and we worked with Columbus House. Our proposal to Columbus House is a design that will offer each resident autonomy and privacy, with light-filled spaces that celebrate the rituals and routines of domestic life. The independence of each unit is echoed in the site organization. The disposition of the cross-laminated timber distinguishes the two households by enclosing the two-story family unit, a monolithic volume set against the lightness of the stick-frame individual unit. The result is a pair of unique dwellings, an adjacency that is implied along the parti wall. The family unit expands into the backyard, while the south wall of the individual unit opens onto a raised lawn. These separate outdoor spaces are bounded by shared parking and a rain garden that together imply a mediating diagonal. Interior spaces are arranged in a play of volume and line. Internal bands organize zones for services and circulation, while volumes cut across the grain to enclose private spaces.
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CLT and Stick Frame Diagrammatic Model 37
Proposed Building Vacant Lots Driveway Additional Structure Demolished Before 2004 2004 - 2008 2008 - 2013 2013 - 2017
New Haven ‘Hill’ Site Plan 38
Material Diagram Sequence
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Plan - Second Floor 41
Long Section 1
Team H Design Prospectus Long Section 2
Team H Design Prospectus
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Reading Nook 43
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Side ‘South’ Elevation
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Front ‘West’ Elevation
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Construction Sequence 45
1’=1/4” Section Detail Model 46
Interior Perspectives
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Behind The Scene Semester One, 2017–18 Critic: David Moon Broadway sets are usually discarded after usage in front of the harsh critics of New York City. Behind The Scene is an archive in the heart of New Haven specializing in the collection of set designs past their shelf-life and revitalizes them through an open display in an university town. Students of the arts can interact with the sets to learn of narrative constructs while other visitors can utilize its multi-functional platforms. Located on a corner lot, the archive realizes the entirety of the site with its conforming orthogonal mass. A plain appearance dominates the white fabric, covered facade and only at night do the internal objects reveal themselves through projected shadows. The Behind The Scene subscribes to no decoration, awaiting as an empty canvas. The plan lends itself to the Broadway theater district in New York City, rising platforms are reminiscent to the blocks in mid-town while what seems to be an endless red carpet unfurls its way through, leading its subjects through the sets via series of stairs, catwalks and ramps. At it’s current state, each platform contains a singular set, though in the future, more can be added to generate clusters of density.
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1’ = 1/16” Site Model 49
Circulation Structure
Street Floor Plates
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‘Displaced Waxon’ (right) unveils the nature of the archive through drawing the negative and positive outcomes of the collected object. This speculative representation distills the building to its bones whilst visualizing a myriad of potential set display methods and arrangements in the future.
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Long Section
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Short Section
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Plan - Ground Floor
Plan - Top Floor
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Interior Perspectives 55
1’=1/4” Sectional Model 56
Front Street Elevation
Side Street Elevation
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Suburban Stack Semester One, 2016 Critic: Patrick Macasaet Suburban Stack is a product of a smeared civic fringe condition. It is an amalgamation of municipal characteristics formulated into a vertical office tower typology which provides a diversity of speculated working conditions. It is through the collective of a programmatic amalgamation that the city of Footscray, Melbourne can be viewed in a performative and ornamental aspect. The project is formed through a process-experiment based approach which involves a postulated contamination of a typology with a rule based ideation to re-imagine core architectural elements of form, circulation, program and spatial arrangements. The rule is deployed as a method of manipulation, distortion, amplification and dispersing the behaviors of the typology in order to re-arrange the status quo of an office environment. The vertical corporate campus is an emerging typology for urban development yet is also a very unpolished model, Suburban Stack utilities anamorphic projected contextual allusions in combination with a familiar archetype of a skate park to generate a campus of unprecedented social interactions and a containment of a suburban work place.
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Prototype Projection Section 59
Projection Sequence Diagram 60
A Punctured Reading Is this it? The exegetical byproduct, the informal seat, the constant reminder of a civic allegiance. A collective singularity, in facades and operation whilst presenting a test of conflict but also of complementarity and exquisite pretensions. An experiment to agitate the way a working environment operates with an illegible reading of five separate conditions.
Perspective Long Section 61
Plan - Ground Floor 62
Plan - Fourth Floor 63
Suburban Stack Exterior 64
In The Stacks 65
Value of Air Semester Two, 2018–19 Critic: Bimal Mendis Team: Jackson Lindsay, Andrew Miller, Matthew Liu The City Government announced the 2018 East Harlem Rezoning Proposal, a set of new zoning statutes that upzoned nearly every lot in East Harlem. Looking at historical precedents of upzoning, it is clear that new development is inevitable. Our project, through its several phases, addresses the incoming development in a similar way to the community-led East Harlem Neighborhood Plan from 2017: leveraging new capital for improvements to the existing community. This is where JAM 1.0 (Juridical Air Management) steps in. Our first proposal is simple. Large developers do not buy air rights from small, single-lot landlords, preferring to purchase in bulk. Once the vast majority of midblock air rights are sold to the upzoned edges and the midblock owners have new access to capital, JAM 1.0 switches tack and becomes JAM 2.0 (Joint Activity Mediators) with intentions of providing the blocks with a portfolio of impactful and potentially profitable options. These new developments would be funded by the cash influx provided by the first wave of air rights transfers and subsidized by Joint Activity Mediators by capital raised through commissions as the Juridical Air Management.
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Building ‘Play’ Model 67
1st and 100th
2nd and 106th 2nd and 106th
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FAR Table
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Zoning
Site Size
Built Space
Available Air Space
Air Value
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$26,583,150
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Private Residential
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Vacant
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178,382
$49,055,050
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Public Park
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Private Mixed Use
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Totals
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386,486
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Block isometric.
Site Program 1FAR Table Joint Operated Playground
Zoning
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Site Size
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Built Space
Available Air Space
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Air Value
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TAG Operated Young Scholar’s School Joint Playground
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287,000 n/a
Built Space
Available Air Space 1,240,000 268,380
$341,000,000 $73,804,500
$71,823,400
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PrivateYoung Residential TAG Scholar’s School
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409,534 180,044
771,222 287,000
2,709,800 1,240,000
$745,195,000 $341,000,000
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$85,320,125
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1,058,222 771,222
4,218,180 2,709,800
$1,160,000,000 $745,195,000
846,479
$232,781,725
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621,152
1,058,222
4,218,180
$1,160,000,000
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Program
Zoning
Site Size
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$232,781,725
80% 80%
TOTAL VALUE
UNBUILT
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Zoning Zoning
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Built Built Space Space
Available Available Air Air Space Space
Air Air Value Value
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13,992 13,992
203,893 203,893
$56,070,575 $56,070,575
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259,411 259,411
46,985 46,985
$12,920,875 $12,920,875
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R9-A R9-A
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339,566 339,566
459,715 459,715
$126,421,625 $126,421,625
R9-A R9-A
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3,878 3,878
13,971 13,971
193,179 193,179
626,940 626,940
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729,585 729,585
$5,222,800 $5,222,800
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FAR Table Site 1
Program
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Site Size
Built Space
Available Air Space
Air Value
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732,636
2,919,500
$802,862,500
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732,636
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Zoning R9-A
Site Size
Built Space
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732,636
UNBUILT 429,660 Totals
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$802,862,500 Available Air Space 2,919,500
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Air Value
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TOTAL VALUE $802,862,500
$802,862,500 TOTAL VALUE
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Resin Air Rights Model 69
Superstructure Playground Model 70
Our proposal offers a number of different categories for possible rooftop development. These new developments would be funded by the cash influx provided by the first wave of air rights transfers and subsidized by JAM 2.0 by capital raised through commissions as JAM 1.0. 1. Housing - Learning from the East Harlem Neighborhood Plan our housing proposal is much more strict than the recently implemented quota.With the funding from the earlier sales, JAM subsidies, and expanded tax breaks, we hope to offset the cost of a more radically affordable housing scheme. 2. Energy - By removing the NYC cap from energy producing tax credits and rebates, we hope to decentralize power and encourage DIY green power energy that could be fed into the city grid.
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3. Agricultural - East Harlem is a food desert. East Harlem also has a large number of programs attempting to alleviate this problem.We hope that the Agricultural category will team with local stores and food services to provide fresh food to the neighborhood. 4. Institutional - The institutional programs are entirely context specific: an extension of the Poet’s Theater on 106th, a rooftop interactive classroom for PS 38 or any number of programmatic extensions could be partially funded by JAM money.
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5. Recreation - East Harlem is frequently criticized for its lack of green space. This category offers the possibility of public recreation space on unused roofs, whether it’s just a few chess tables, a wall ball court, or a basketball court for local 3-on-3 tournaments.
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East Harlem Triptych - This drawing is used to represent the extents of our sites in three parts. Read from left to right, it narrates a possible outcome of the new up-zoning and JAM’s intervention in it. The triptch is a snapshot for a planned bigger picture of 18 blocks, 28, 695, 030 sqft of total air rights, 72% of which is unbuilt. The value for the unbuilt air rights is $7,904, 253, 225 ‘Birth’ represents JAM1.0 (Juridical Air Management) as air rights middlemen,‘Life’ shows a light and community focused developmental ideal following proposed models by JAM2.0 (Joint Activity Mediator) and ‘Death’ reveals a hyper dense, structuralist result of the casually unbound systems.
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After The Election Semester Two, 2016 Critic: Peter Corrigan, AM After the Election is a Master of Architecture studio at RMIT University. I was able to take it under the supervision of the late Peter Corrigan in the final semester of my undergraduate degree. Bi-weekly tasks studied concurrent political events and cultural mediums which would serve as inspiration to a myriad of raw designs, resulting in essays, balsa wood maquettes, golf courses, sanatoriums, building details, analogue drawings, detailed narratives and collages. Over the course of the semester over 60 projects were produced.
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THE RECLAIM WELLNESS CENTRE MATTHEW LIU
ʻCleveland Pos Mr Matthew Liu & Ms Marnie Ne
CLUBHOUSE VIEW MR MATTHEW LIU & MR ALEX ROOME
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Strada Novissima Semester Two, 2017–18 Critic: Robert A.M Stern Respecting the brief and site of the 1980 Venice Biennale La Strada Novissima, this facade takes on the character of Terry Farrell. Torn between his British Neo-Classicist education and a budding post modernist hi-tech style, the design imagines what could have been a Farrell facade proposal had he been invited by Paolo Portoghesi.
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Farrell’s Imagined Entry 85
Formal Analysis Semester One, 2017–18 Critics: Peter Eisenman & Elisa Iturbe Within Wofflin’s ‘Renaissance and Baroque’ there is an emphasis on the appearance of surfaces and form. In Borromini’s churches, there is an evident push and shove implied in the curvatures of the voids/mass; “unending process of impassioned agitation and furious struggle between form and mass”. The constant reversal of circular spaces results in a building which seems “inadequate to contain the bulging mass it encloses”. Sant’ Ivo pertains to alternating convex and concaving geometries whilst San Carlo seems to imply a similar alternating in its façade curvature yet only contains a convex directionality in its main axis. The section axonometric drawing shows the surface curvature qualities with an underlying to show the datum geometries defined by the poche.
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Borromini - Sant’Ivo and San Carlo 87
Pleat_Pod 2016 ZilkaStudio & RMIT A+D Research Assistant / Fabrication Leader Pleat_Pod is a design build project with ZilkaStudio in collaboration with RMIT University’s d__Lab which undertakes practice-based research projects engaging constructed and material environments. It works with industry partners across many sectors providing design research inputs adding value and insight to their processes. This meeting pavilion provides spatial separation in an open plan setting to be placed within the RMIT University’s Design Hub. The research asks the questions: How can you employ textile techniques to produce architectural space? How can these textile techniques be scaled to a level which maintains their characteristics? How does the pod react at a built scale for its audience to read? The Pleat_Pod answers these questions by looking to the technique of pleating (where a linear length of fabric is folded to adopt to the cylindrical form of the body) to create an acoustic enclosure that utilizes sound rated materials to form structure and surface. The structural qualities of the pleat geometry allows for a structure/surface integration with the ability to concertina open and close.
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Fabric Pleat Prototyping 89
Pleat Form Testing
Materiality/Panel Diagram 90
Fabrication Progress Images (Right) Moving from the design development stages, material testing and model prototyping, fabrication of the 1:1 pavilion needed to start by the middle of the year.With advice from structural engineers and shop consultants, we manufactured over 150 individual triangular pieces, each with a unique profile cut. After completing the first few pleat columns, I lead the rest of the fabrication team until completion whilst working on the hinged components and a university wide exhibition.
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Photography by John Gollings
Pavilion Exterior 92
Pavilion Exhibition and Interior 93
Chaiselounge.gh Semester One, 2018–19 Critic:Timothy Newton The chair has been a crucible for architectural ideas and their design throughout the trajectory of modern architecture. As a model for understanding architecture and as a laboratory for the concise expression of idea, material, fabrication and form. ‘Chaiselounge.GH’ is the result of an experimentation of material, fantastical sketching and application of structure. Ergonomic and dimensional norms are studied vigorously through precedent studies as means of understanding standard bodily measurements. Completely assembled from mild steel and fabrication techniques include welding, tube and sheet bending. Bug-morphic in form, the lounge chair mimics certain aspects of grasshopper biology. Curvatures in the primary and secondary frames allow for a ‘hop’ tolerance without compromising the material’s structural capacity.
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In The Grass 95
256 SpotWelds 96
Component Diagram 97
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In Your Hands 2018 Team: Michael Nock, Emily Cass, Matthew Liu Since 2017, the Prada Group has hosted an annual competition and conference with the aim of stimulating a debate on the most significant changes taking place in contemporary society. Prada has collaborated with the Yale School of Management for this competition. ‘Shaping a Sustainable Digital Future’ explored the relationsip between sustainability and digital innovation. Our proposal ‘In Your Hands’ placed 1st and we were invited to participate in the 2018 conference held at the Fondazione Prada, Milan.
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Prada Flat-pack Proposal 101
The Application
i - The story of the curated materials
ii - Meet the artisan
iii - AR instructions
The Interface 102
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Contemporary commidification obsures the hand of the artisans, threatening practices and the cultures the build. In Your Hands raises awareness about these practices, telling the untold value through new technologies and trends. The project unrolls handmade products into their component parts: materials and designs. Traditionally united by a craftsperson. The project encourages users to emulate this work and construct the product themselves thus understanding the processes of an artisan. A playful twist on mass market culture, flat-packed boxes with premium raw materials and toolkits are sent to consumers. An associated application integrates assembly instructions using BIM technology. Articulated through the lense of fashion, In your Hands the awareness campaign can be expanded to other labor intensive crafts to allow for mass participation.
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Product Design Semester One, 2019–20 Critic: John Jacobson This series concentrates on the design and innovation of three dimensional objects not usually found in architectural settings. Issues of detail, scale, proportion, aesthetics, manufacturing, and commercial viability are explored. The size of the object allows for constant full size prototype iteration and detailing exploration which is uncommon in the architectural profession. A lamp, tape dispenser and pepper grinder are included in this series, each playing on the norms of functionality associated with the product.
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Bin Chicken Lamp 105
Bin Chicken Lamp 106
Shape Dispenser 107
Ex Hoc (tic) Pepper Grinder 108
Ex Hoc (tic) Pepper Grinder 109
Collective Musings 110
Isolation Insanitus 111
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